Moss Motors, Ltd

I have finally succeeded!  My wife was able to pull the car out of the garage today and drive it down the road for the first time in over 8 years.  Got in into all 4 gears too.    Still have a couple issues: 1.  the idle seems to "miss" now and again.  not quite sure if that would be carb adjustments still ...

Accually, I don't spend much time in there while it is running.  I walk out.  I don't know if that is the real problem or not, I can accually see the "smoke" coming the from the under the car  through the whole system.  So, it shouldn't even be CO, cuz CO is invisible.  But seriously, I am very ...

I was able to adjust the carb to get the engine to stay running, had the idle at 1800 rpm as the book suggests to warm up the engine before making the finnal adjustments.  After about 5 minutes, ity stalled out.  Rpms dropped to nothing.  I think it is 1 of 2 posible problems, maybe both together.   The carb got too hot from ...

chuck, I haveee just finnished replacing the engine in my 77B recently.  When I did it, i left the mounts attached to the car and bolted the engine to the mounts once it was in the car.  2 bolts for each mount this way but much easier to line up and bolt down. joel

starter is still working good so far.  (have to look at the newer one with the new solenoid still, but there will be time for that later)  found a loose wire AGAIN at the 3 wire plug for the distibutor.  soldered it this time so I shouldn't have issues with it again.  So, the engine is turning now, it is fireing.  I ...

I think that i have just eliminated all of our grief so far.  I took the starter out of the car again today to bench test it again.  Couldn't get ANYTHING out of it except a weak spark.  I then bench tested the other starter/solenoid again(the one that autozone told me a couple years back was no good and it was working great. ...

new solenoid is due tomorow.  finally, my waiting will be over.

mgb 76, the wires at the starter relay are just as you said.  when I disconnected the white/red wires ig just got the buzzing ignition.  when I disconnected the black wire, I got the same...ignition buzzing.  i hooked the up again and put my hand on the relay and the clicking is deffinatly comming from the relay, I can feel it ...

thamk you very much for breaking down some of this wireing for me.  i have been triing to follow the wiring diagrams in my manual, but they are soo busy, it makes it hard.  My starter relay is square with the terminals on the bottom of it.  I will check what you have suggested and try to follow all these wires and get back to you. ...

my battey seems to have a good charge on it.  with my volt meter set at 200 (the lowest setting)  it reads 1.1 - 1.2  which should be 11 -12 volts.  i also have a charger/jumper hooked up to it to be sure i don't drain it from repetitious cranking on the engine trying to start it. joel